[1][3] Yamak started playing football together with her brothers Yusuf and Aziz, impressing bystanders with her talent.

[1] Settled with her family in Bavaria, Germany, she began playing football at age twelve in the youth team of FC Hochbrück, a club in the neighborhood of Garching, Munich.

Her team Bayern Munich reached the final of the 1982 German Women's Football Championship (Deutsche Frauen Fußballmeisterschaft 1982), becoming runners-up.

[2] Yamak became a licensed football Instructor (1993) and holder of an UEFA B coaching licence (1994), an UEFA A coaching licence (December 1998) and FIFA licensed football instructor (January 2014) as the only sportswoman of Turkish origin.

[1][2][3] She is a member of the Association of German Football Teachers (Bund Deutscher Fußball-Lehrer, BDFL).